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ˈslubbing, vbl. n.
Also 8 slobbing.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. A process of drawing and twisting by which cotton or wool slivers are prepared for spinning.
1779R. Peele Pat. Specif. No 1212. 1 My Invention of a Method for the..Slobbing, Roving and Spinning of Cotton, Silk, Worsted and Woollen. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mech. 386 A machine called the billy, or roving-billy, the operation of which is called roving or slubbing. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 8 There is a process between carding and spinning the wool, called slubbing. 1876I. Watts in Brit. Manuf. Indust. V. 135 The operation which follows the drawing is that of slubbing, where the sliver has a certain amount of twist imparted to it.
2. One of the loosely-compacted threads obtained by this process.
1786J. Royds Pat. Specif. No. 1564. 2 This machine being for the purpose of passing at once two or more slubbings betwixt the rollers. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 171 It..thus forms what is called a slubbing or roving—a soft thread to be thereafter spun, on the mule-jenny, into yarn fit for the loom. 1884W. S. B. McLaren Spinning (ed. 2) 123 The slubbing should be strong enough to pull out easily when stretched by the hands.
3. collect. Cotton or wool which has been slubbed.
1836Bingham's New Cases II. 451 Manufacturers..took their wool..to the mill for the purpose of being..made into slubbing. 1891R. Marsden Cotton Spinning (ed. 4) 162 Two strands of slubbing are put up, and by a draught of two are united into one.
4. attrib., chiefly with names of apparatus, as slubbing-billy, slubbing-frame, slubbing-jenny, slubbing-machine; also slubbing-thread, slubbing-waste.
1795Edinb. Advertiser 6 Jan. 15/3 One slubbing jeanny, with one mule jeanny. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 9 The long wooden rod from his slubbing-frame. Ibid. 171 The Slubbing Machine, or Billy, performs the next operation. Ibid. 175 It might be supposed that the slubbing threads would be apt to coil round the spindles. 1891R. Marsden Cotton Spinning (ed. 4) 221 The slubbing billy..in a modified and improved form..still exists in the woollen trade. 1894Times 17 Aug. 9/5 Slubbing waste, roving waste,..and all waste or rags composed wholly or in part of wool. |